Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 32
I mean that which mankind call the beautiful.
Who acts: I, mankind · What happens: mean, call · To what, where: beautiful · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mankind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 mankind | det |
| 5 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mean | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beautiful | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 call | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | present | which mankind | the beautiful | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beautiful=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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